Album Review
Phonophani – “Oak or Rock ” – [Rune Grammafon]
Hunter Gatherer 2/27/2005 A Library, CD
Phonophani is Norwegian programmer/composer/studio engineer Espen Sommer Eide. He is also – of Alog and 1/5 of Boiling Fjords. This is his third release as Phonophani and his 2nd on Rune Grammofon. It was released 8/2004.
Mr. Eide writes his own computer software for manipulating sound samples, and helpfully includes a sample program that you can download from his website. The sounds on this CD are either entirely synthesized or high processed organic sounds. Rhythms and melodies are spare. The emphasis is squarely on the timbre of the sounds, which are somewhere in the space between natural and processed sounds (Oak or Rock?).
The songs have an icy and austere feel. The piano, organ, string, and vocal samples sound like they are refracted through ice.
All songs are instrumental, though 9 contains vocal samples that make it unsuitable for a bed.
–Hunter Gatherer
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